Method of installing water-closet bowls



Patented Dec. 4, 1923.

i l 1,4?a49ga 'i l UNITED STATES PATENT oFlficEf-.lV

CORNELIUS DIYER, OF AMSTERDAMQNEW YORK.

METHOD OF INSTALLING WATER-CLOSEI BOIVLS.

Application filed September 22, 1926. Serial No. 411,996. j

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS DwYnR, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Amsterdam, in the county of Montgomery and State of New York, have invented certain new and` useful Improvements in Methods of Installing Water- Closet-Bowls, of which the following is a specification.

A primary object of the present invention is to-provide for easily and quickly installing bowls upon the soil pipe of a building regardless of the varying depth of the bottom recesses in the bowls and sinks now manufactured, the bowl or sink being perfectly fitted to the soil pipe and seated upon the finished floor in the manner illustrated.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of means for seating bowls and the like upon finished floors in connection with soil pipes insuring a tight joint and avoiding the possibility of breaking the bowl or sink, the plumber being enabled to position a coupling upon the soil pipe beneath the bowl or sink properly positioned for evenly resting the lower edges of the base upon the finished floor. With these general objects in view the invention consists of the method hereinafter described and the embodiment of parts for carrying out the samel as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and in which like reference characters designate correspondin parts throughout the several views.

n the drawings,

Figurel 1 is a view of the attaching end of a soil pipe and the adjacent portion of the iioor in vertical section with the soldered nipple in position and with a portionof the base of a bowl shown in vertical section installed upon the soil pipe,

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the fiange connection employed between the soil pipe and bowl,

Figure 3 is a bottom plan View of a portion thereof showing one of the bowl-receiving slots,

Figure 4 is a fra mentary sectional view taken upon line VI VII of Fig. 2, with the nipple removed from the flange,

Figure 5 is a horizontal sectional view through a bowl installed after the manner of my invention with one of the bowls shown in section and one removed,

Referring more in detail to the drawings, I have shown for purposes of illustration the soil pipe 11 projecting upwardly through a floor 12 for the purpose of'V installing a closet bowl 13 thereon.

The annular recess 14 surrounding the outlet extension 15 of the bowl 13 varies in depth in different bowls with respect to the bottom face 16 of the bowl 'thereby usually rendering it difficult to connect the extension 15 within the soil'pipe v11 and accurately seating the bottom 16 of the bowl flatly upon the finished floor 12.

My invention provides a iiange connection 17 best illustrated in Figure 2 ofthe drawings comprising a ring or annular iian'ge 18 screw-threaded upon a -central nipple 19.

vThe nipple 19 has a beveled or tapered outer face for reception within the open end of the soil pipe 11l which may be slightly iiared for this purpose as at 20, nipple 19 being secured to the portion 2O by solder 21.

The nipple 19 is easily positioned with its upper edge above the floor 12 a distance equal to the depth of the recess 14 and the nipple is then secured by solder 21 to the pipe end 2O in this position. -i

The flange 18 is then mounted upon the nipple 19 by means of the screw threads 29 and the bowl 13 is positioned right side up with the outlet extension 15 .inserted within the nipple 19 and with the roof 22 of the recess 14 seated upon the top of the flange 18 as best illustrated in Figure 1 of the drawings, and at which time the bottom 16 of theV bowl 13 is accurately positioned upon the finished ioor 12. The usual attaching bolts 30 are in position through the radial slots 31 of the bowl`13 when installed in this manner, and the squared heads 32 of the bolts 31 are projected downwardly through the squared end portions 33 of slightly arcuate slots 34 provided in the iiange 18, it being understood that the usual washers 34 and retaining nuts 35 are provided upon the upper end portions of the bolts 30.

U-shaped ledges 36 inwardly of the slots 33 iiush with the upper yface of the flange 18 are adapted4 to receive the bolts 3() with the heads 32 beneath the ledges 36 uponslightly turning of bowl 13 axially of the extension 15 to place the bowl in its proper direction upon the floor 12 and at which time, the

nuts 35 may be tightened upon the washers 34,V thereby locking the bowl 13 to the flange 18 and drawing the bottom face 16r of the bowl tightly against the ioor 12.

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A water and gas tight joint is easily formed inl this manner betsween a bowl'or sink and the soil pipe l1, it being seen however, that the joint Inay also be easily disconnected by substantially reversing the op-V eration herein described. The connection nipple 19 is readily soldered to any soil .pipe

'at the required elevation for accurately vinstalling any bowl or sink regardless of the depth of the recess 14 provided in the-base. thereof. The flange connection 1'?v is serv-V iceable with any form of'soirlV pipe and'bowl Having thus described rny invention, what- I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is f Means for attaching bowls to soil pipes outwardly flared and prqjets thru-.and

to the flared en d ofsaid soil pipe and eX'- r tending abovefthe sanne, a ring threaded to said nipple, anda bowlI adapted to be secured to said ring and rest upon the upper edge of said nipple,. said bowl having anV Y annular recess of substantially equal depth. Y

surrounding an outlet extensionof vgreater axial length than the depth of said' recess, said extension positioned Within said'- nipple,

and said rinp; being` of less'axial length than the depth o-the'sa'id recess and whollypQ-f sitioned therein. t 1

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